Nancy Reagan was secretly hooked on pills while spearheading Just Say No campaign, new book reveals
EXCLUSIVE: Nancy Reagan - who famously told America to Just Say No to drugs - took so many 'uppers and downers' that White House doctors had to tell the president his wife had a pill problem,' new book reveals New biography, The Triumph of Nancy Reagan, by Washington Post journalist Karen Tumulty, lifts the lid on the late first lady's secret pill addiction Nancy Reagan launched the 'Just Say No' anti-drug campaign in 1982 which became her major initiative as the First Lady of the United States At the time, Republican President Ronald Reagan had begun the 'War on Drugs'